test-attachment.txt

-- create new index
$ curl -XPUT "localhost:9200/testindex" -d '
> { settings: { index: { number_of_shards: 1, number_of_replicas: 0}
> }
> }'


-- create mapping for testattachment type
$ curl -XPUT "localhost:9200/testindex/testattachment/_mapping" -d '
{ testattachment: {
properties: {
file : { type: "attachment"}
}
}
}'

-- import binary content
$ curl -XPUT "localhost:9200/testindex/testattachment/1" -d @attachment.txt

-- get mapping
$ curl -XGET "localhost:9200/testindex/testattachment/_mapping?pretty=true"
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   868  100   868    0     0    856      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--  847k{
  "testattachment" : {
    "properties" : {
      "file" : {
        "path" : "full",
        "type" : "attachment",
        "fields" : {
          "author" : {
            "type" : "string"
          },
          "title" : {
            "type" : "string"
          },
          "keywords" : {
            "type" : "string"
          },
          "file" : {
            "type" : "string"
          },
          "date" : {
            "format" : "dateOptionalTime",
            "type" : "date"
          },
          "content_type" : {
            "type" : "string"
          }
        }
      },
      "metadata" : {
        "dynamic" : "true",
        "properties" : {
          "md5" : {
            "type" : "string"
          },
          "length" : {
            "type" : "long"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}